Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is an accomplished atmospheric scientist who studies climate change and its significance to us. She is also a remarkable communicator, recognized with numerous awards including the National Center for Science Education’s Friend of the Planet award, the American Geophysical Union’s Climate Communication Prize, and the Sierra Club’s Distinguished Service award.

Her writing has appeared in a wide range of outlets including the New York Times, Wired, O Magazine, and Chatelaine, and her most recent book, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2021. Her TED Talk, “The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it,” has garnered more than four million views. Hayhoe has served as an author on the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth U.S. National Climate Assessments. She hosts and produces the PBS Digital Series, Global Weirding, and serves on advisory committees for several organizations, including the Union Bank of Switzerland, Netflix, King Philanthropies, and the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.

She has been named to various prestigious lists, including:

• Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People (2014)
• Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Leading Thinkers (2019)
• FORTUNE magazine’s World’s Greatest Leaders (2017)
• United Nations’ Champion of the Earth in Science and Innovation (2019)

Currently, Hayhoe serves as Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy and holds the position of Paul W. Horn Distinguished Professor and Political Science Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law at Texas Tech University.